http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal Journal about Jaap Ruurd Feitsma Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:51:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Harnas Wild Life Foundation A few days before Albert and the others went back home, we went to the Harnas Wildlife Foundation. It’s about an hour and a half drive away from Gobabis. Harnas is a wildlife park where you can go on a safari trip by 4wd and on ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/07/22/namibia-part-4/ Life in the slums of Epako The first few times that we went into the slums of Gobabis, Epako was with Judith and I was not as shocked as I thought I would be. Maybe this was because in the South East of Turkey I had seen comparable living situations, or ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/07/20/namibia-part-03/ welcome to Africa! So here we are, Namibia! Departed from Holland with Albert Scheffer, his daughter Judith Scheffer, and Albert his collegues Thea Seinen, Date de Vries and and my fellow grad student Jelmer de Jong we drove for 6 hours to Europes largest airport which is placed in Frankfurt, Germany. ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/07/20/namibia-part-2/ On the second of july 2010 I’ll be flying with fellow CMD student Jelmer de Jong towards the second least densely populated country in the world which also happens to be one of the driest continents on the planet. This country is positioned above South Africa and is called Namibia. ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/06/25/namibia-part-1/ In 2008 I studied and lived in Turkey for about 8 months. I was a participant of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), an exchange program that gives students the oppurtunity to study in a foreign country. I chose to do this in Eskisehir (Eski = Old, Sehir = city), Turkey. In ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/06/02/an-interview-in-turkey/ Just recently I have finished my showreel 2010. It’s been on YouTube for a short while allready, but I haven’t even had time yet to put it into my own blog. But here it is! The reel contains material that I have either directed, co-directed or shot myself. To get a ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/04/21/my-showreel/ On the 23rd of january a photography exhibition about the great city of Istanbul opened up in 'De Kunsthal' in Rotterdam. It's called 'Onmoetingen langs de Bosporus' which basically means 'Meetings along the Bosphorus'. Photographer Nicole Segers travelled the bosphorus river up and down by some of the ferryboats on the river ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/02/20/meetings-along-the-bosphorus/ A short time before I went to Lisbon I did a photoshoot for the 'Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden', Holland. The same day, after the photoshoot in the museum, I also made some portrait photos of Gerda Havertong. One of these pictures has recently been used in ICCO magazine, for an ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/02/19/gerda-havertong-icco/ On december the 29th I flew back to The Netherlands from Lisbon, Portugal. My internship at CheckTheGate had come to an end. After very nice goodbyes with both company CheckTheGate and other people that I’ve met over the past 4 months that I was there, I was packed and ready ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2010/02/18/back-in-holland/ I would like to use this particular blog to wish everyone a merry chrismas and a happy and succesful 2010 from Lisbon, Portugal. I know that at this moment in the province of Friesland (where I was born) in the Netherlands there is currently a 30 cm pack of snow ... http://www.jaapruurd.com/journal/index.php/2009/12/17/checkthegate-part-06-merry-christmas-a-happy-new-year/